Ars chats with Ben Orlin about his new book, Math for English Majors. Skip to content ... If you had ABC and BAC and ACB, ... But I didn't want to write 40,000 words. I wanted to write 800 words.

Math ruined my GPA. But a new book rekindled my fascination with numbers. In ‘Once Upon a Prime,’ Sarah Hart takes readers on a fascinating tour of the world of numbers, finding connections ...

The comic book format takes liberties beyond apples and oranges. When the gray-haired gym teacher walks by, a student named Jaime does math: “3 ear hairs plus 2 nose hairs equals 5 old guy hairs.” ...